After several days of continuous practice, the spiritual energy in Shen Lian's body reached a perfect state.
All in all, it has been barely a year since he broke through to the seventh level of Qi training, but thanks to the tide of spiritual energy, his realm after promotion did not become superficial.
After practicing the Five Qis Converging to the Origin Technique, the spiritual power in his body is as powerful as those cultivators who have been practicing Qi for many years at the seventh level.
Playing with Mama Lailai's barrier-breaking pill in his hand, Shen Lian opened his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
Hell, he'd be practicing alchemy once he left this wilderness.
Even dogs won’t eat this kind of rubbish.
The pill was of poor quality and had a mixed taste. It gave him a burning and stinging sensation after he took it.
Soon, the medicinal power was released into the body and spread along the meridians to all parts of the body.
Shen Lian looked inward with his spiritual sense around his body, capturing the power of the barrier-breaking elixir scattered throughout his body and pulling it into his meridians in strands.
The medicinal power can only achieve its maximum effect when it passes through the meridians, flows into the dantian and is transformed into spiritual power.
Now, Shen Lian's spiritual power has reached seventy feet.
This is all thanks to the secret method of refining blood and evolving souls.
Increasing his spiritual strength by twenty feet in a year was something he had never dared to imagine before. This was the result of his restrained practice.
If he were to act like the demon cultivator and let go of his fellow Taoist, his divine consciousness would surely soar into the sky.
No wonder so many cultivators choose to practice the magic method. Compared with the righteous methods, the improvement is too fast.
The downside is that the side effects of practicing are also serious. Shen Lian feels that he is somewhat addicted. Every time he refines the flesh and blood of a monster, he wants to grab Dahei and take a bite from time to time.
Fortunately, Dahei was ugly and black, which suppressed his bloodthirsty impulses.
It’s better than the Qingxin Talisman.
Six drops of crystal blood were attached to his heart.
The refined blood and energy of the monster does not always remain in this form after being assimilated into the body.
After nourishing the spiritual consciousness, the essence in the blood will also be consumed. When it is consumed to a certain extent, the remaining blood beads will melt into the body to nourish the entire body.
It can be said that as Shen Lian’s spiritual power improved, his own flesh and blood strength also improved to some extent.
With the strength of his divine sense at a strength of seventy feet, Shen Lian was sensing every meridian in the body, and most of the medicinal power surging in the body was drawn into the meridians and headed towards the dantian.
Boom boom
The powerful medicinal power flowed into Dantian along the meridians, and the bottleneck of the eighth level of Qi training was broken through in just a quarter of an hour.
The medicinal power that has been assimilated in the Dantian re-enters the meridian circulation and turns into the five elements of spiritual power.
This process lasted for half a day before Shen Lian's aura gradually calmed down.
At this moment, he was truly successful if he broke through the eighth level of Qi training.
call--
Shen Lian let out a long sigh, looked at the black dirt that seeped out of his body, and then used his spiritual energy to clean his entire body.
Without getting up in a hurry, he began to check how much his spiritual power had increased.
Starting from the origin of divine consciousness, every breakthrough represents the sublimation of the cultivator's life level, and divine consciousness will increase accordingly.
As soon as the thought came to his mind, Shen Lian's spiritual consciousness began to spread outward.
Thirty feet... fifty feet... seventy feet... eighty feet... eighty-five feet...
When his divine consciousness expanded to ninety-two feet, he realized it had reached the end.
He broke through from the seventh level of Qi training to the eighth level, and his spiritual power increased by twenty-two feet.
Shen Lian was unable to determine to what extent the intensity of his spiritual power had grown, so he could only wait until he was out of the wilderness and then find a place to verify it.
But Weng Xia once said that there are not many cultivators in the Bishui Sect who have reached the ninth level of Qi training and possess a divine consciousness of eighty or ninety feet.
As for the strength of Baizhang's divine consciousness, it has already entered the realm of a foundation-building cultivator.
There are countless opportunities in the world of cultivating immortals, and there are many sons of destiny, both big and small. It is not ruled out that some people with opportunities can possess the divine consciousness of the foundation-building level during the Qi training period.
"I am still eight feet away from the strength of my divine consciousness. I can then begin to practice the Soul Binding Seal in the Secret Method of Refining Blood and Evolving Souls."
"Doesn't it mean that when I break through the ninth level of Qi training, the strength of my spiritual power will be comparable to that of foundation building?"
Shen Lian's eyes lit up.
"No, as long as there is a demon beast for me to refine, there is no need to wait until the ninth level of Qi training."
After showing off for a while, Shen Lian regained his faith in the Tao.
Be steady.
Before leaving the wilderness, he decided not to continue practicing the secret method of refining blood and generating souls. The effect of the Heart Purification Talisman was greatly reduced, and every time he refined a monster, the sequelae of bloodthirstiness lasted longer and longer.
After you go out and find spiritual objects such as high-level Qingxin Gem or Ningxin Fruit, you can improve your spiritual consciousness to feel more at peace.
Just like practicing talisman making and beast taming, they are all for the purpose of cultivating immortals. The same is true for practicing the soul-evolving method. It is to assist in cultivating immortals, not to be controlled by blood.
Even if he becomes a demon, he can only eat his fellow Taoists according to his own will, instead of becoming possessed and losing his mind.
His divine sense swept around and checked the nest of the black-horned demon ants.
The group of demon ants led by Dahei have gone out to explore the way and have not returned yet.
In the demon ant's nest, the queen ant is still continuously laying down black-horned ant larvae.
Before leaving the market, Shen Lian purchased more than seventy first-level monsters, which have been completely consumed.
Twenty-nine of them were used by him to practice the secret method of refining blood and generating souls, and the rest were used to cultivate black-horned ants.
Fortunately, after the black-horned demon ants formed a group, they could hunt some weak demon insects for food on their own, which is why they were able to reproduce to the level of more than 700 demonized ants.
After being promoted to the eighth level of Qi training and his spiritual power reaching ninety feet, Shen Lian had stayed in this cave for quite some time. He felt that it was time to speed up his progress.
Only by returning to the Chu State's world of immortal cultivation as soon as possible can we have peace and security.
In the vast mountains.
Among the rocks and vegetation on the ground, fist-sized demon ants kept popping up their heads everywhere.
Sometimes, there is bad luck.
It disappeared as I walked.
The demon ants have a unique way of identifying routes, and where they pass, they leave behind a unique smell.
Black-horned demon ants can distinguish the routes taken by their own kind based on smell.
If the smell suddenly disappears on some routes, it means that the species may have been killed.
Then this road represents danger.
Of course, in order to further verify the danger level of the route, the route that can kill the black-horned demon ants will not be abandoned directly.
There will be a second and third wave of demon ants who will continue to take over and explore the way forward.
If it's all broken.
emmmn……
The area near this road will be marked as a dangerous zone and you need to avoid it when passing by.
In addition to their unique talent for recognizing roads, the demon ants also have a strong sense of various auras in the environment.
The feces left by monsters along the way and the traces of monsters that have appeared will also be marked one by one.
All these data were finally summarized by Dahei and handed over to Shen Lian, forming a map.
In the forest, Shen Lian looked at the animal skin in his hand that looked like a ghostly talisman, and walked down the surrounding mountains.
This picture was taken by Dahei and his fellow ants, who waded through it at the cost of their lives.
It is as heavy as a mountain and has made great contributions.
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"Are you breathing with those two black eyeballs? You can't even see such a big monster."
Shen Lian was holding Dahei and lying in the underground cave, panting.
Dahei's two tentacles were drooping and his fangs were twitching, looking very aggrieved.
They fly in the sky and they crawl on the ground, what can we do?
In the miasma cloud, high-pitched cries resounded through the sky. The miasma in the sky was stirred by the wind. Pairs of black or gray wings flapped, revealing the ugly bald eagle heads on their heads.
In a cave hundreds of feet deep underground, Shen Lian activated talismans such as breath-concealing and divine consciousness all over his body to conceal his aura.
No matter how much you curse me, I really can’t blame Dahei this time.
Following the route that Dahei had led the tribe to explore in advance, Shen Lian traveled nearly two thousand miles of mountain roads in just five days.
Unexpectedly, while traveling today, I was noticed by the rotten bone eagle that rushed out from the miasma.
This evil bird is the most difficult creature in the wilderness.
There are a large number of them and they hide in the miasma. They come and go without a trace, and they hunt in groups.
Shen Lian was unlucky and encountered such a group of rotten bone eagles that were out hunting.
The moment he realized something was wrong, he activated the earth escape talisman five times in succession, and along the way, he used the talismans of mountains, rivers, terrain, and divine movement to get into the underground cave.
Fortunately, this underground cave had been discovered in advance and was only more than thirty miles away, so Shen Lian was able to escape danger.
The rotten bone eagle circled in the sky, its eyes constantly looking at every corner of the mountains.
Shen Lian didn't dare to go out, as he was afraid of a fight.
The Rotten Bone Eagle circled in this area for three days before disappearing again in the miasma.
Dahei quietly crawled out to summon his fellow tribesmen. After the final integration, he found that there were only more than a hundred of them left, and most of them were scared away by the demon eagle.
Fortunately, most of the backbones at the Qi training level are there. These highly intelligent demon ants know how to hide, and the demon ants that have just been transformed are more inclined to instinct.
When encountering danger, they will just run around mindlessly and end up losing themselves.
“Hiss—”
Looking at the remaining black-horned demon ants, Dahei came close to Shen Lian and hummed softly.
Shen Lian touched Dahei's big horn and said, "Let's go to the next cave to rest for a few days. I'll find you some more wives so you can have more children."
“Hiss—”
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Four months later.
In the mountains and forests on the border of Chu State.
Shen Lian stood on a low hill, looking at the clear sky, wishing he could laugh three times.
I'm out! Thousands of miles away, mountains and valleys, endless miasma.
Do you know how many descendants of Dahei died? "Hiss—"
Lying on Shen Lian's shoulder, Dahei cooperated very well and neighed.
Around the foot of the mountain, nearly a hundred black-horned demon ants were looming in every corner, with their two antennae wagging.
"Children, go!"
Resisting the urge to yell three times, Shen Lian quickly walked down the hill.
(End of this chapter)